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Burden Of Dreams
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The chaotic production of Werner Herzog's 1982 film Fitzcarraldo
For nearly five years, acclaimed German filmmaker Werner Herzog desperately tried to complete the most ambitious and difficult film of his career-Fitzcarraldo, the story of one man's attempt to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle.
Documentary filmmaker Les Blank captured the unfolding of this production, made all the more perilous by Herzog's determination to shoot the most daunting scenes without models or special effects, including a sequence requiring hundreds of natives to pull a full-sized, 320-ton steamship over a small mountain.
The result is an extraordinary document of the filmmaking process and a unique look into the single-minded passion of one of cinema's most fearless directors.
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Averil
Fri 3 September 2010, 10:12
This is one of my favourite films. Fascinating insight into the making of Fitzcarraldo.
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